I got the 460 to play WoW, Diablo 3, and Gears of War 4 via bootcamp. What are your thoughts on frame rate and video settings with this config?
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Radeon Pro 450 2GB vs 460 4GB
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I'm getting that one too, because if I ordered BTO it would be much more expensive (it's hard to explain, but my country only has official resellers and prices go way up if you go for customization). So, I'll be getting the 455 and I'm certain it will work just fine. I seriously doubt LR might need more anytime soon.
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WoW and Diablo 3 work on my current GeForce 750, they are going to fly with 460 (and with any other GPU choice, honestly). As for Gears of War 4 - no idea there. It's a very demanding, modern game - I expect it to work, but at low settings.
I'd hate to give you any input because my machine has not made its way to me yet, so I really can't make any comments. I'm assuming on the internal display, it should be quite good, and should be even more impressive on external display. I play with a 650M GT right now, and it performs very well with everything but shadows almost maxed, and with the 460 having a better shader model, I'm expecting it to do very well.
You can't really compare a gaming console to a computer. So much optimization is done on consoles. Developers do not really care regarding computers. Sure there are games like GTA5 that are VERY optimized, but it is common that games are not optimized well for PC.
The 460 consumes 40% more power (75W vs 45W). This may reduce battery its battery life and run hot.
I can't decided between the two either (450 vs 460). Is the additional power consumption and heat worth the 15% clock boost and double memory? I rarely play games and when I do it's League of Legends.
I can't decided between the two either (450 vs 460). Is the additional power consumption and heat worth the 15% clock boost and double memory? I rarely play games and when I do it's League of Legends.
The 460 has a 35w power consumption.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-Pro-460.181783.0.html
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The 460 Pro should be somewhere in between a 960m and a 965m. For the 960m....
"Many games of 2014/2015 can be played fluently in FullHD resolution and high detail settings. However, very demanding games such as Assassin's Creed Unity will require lower resolutions and/or details."
So games like WoW you can probably turn the settings up, but GoW4 most likely not.
notebookcheck.net
On that site it says the 450 consumes 75W. How can a more powerful GPU consume less? Lots of this data is unreliable.
Did you follow the link to the blog post:
http://radeon.com/en-us/radeon-pro-graphics-debut-in-new-macbook-pro/
Just out of curiosity, in your opinion how would GTA5 run on the 460 considering it has been optimized for computer?
It says this:
"But it’s not enough to have whisper quiet and astonishingly cool operation. It’s not enough for AMD to deliver up to 80% more performance over the prior generation of our graphics processors. It’s not enough to simply launch a professional mobile graphics processor that sips energy by running inside a 35W power envelope."
If you mean the chart, I believe that's an error. The write up says the 460 is 35w and therefore the 455 should use less.
As others mentioned, it's optimization and coding for a specific hardware. For example, I have a M290X on my iMac 5K which is very similar to the GPU in PS4 (same generation, lot of spec similarities, same speed, etc.) and there are some multiplatform games that run poorly (in bootcamp) but work flawlessly on the PS4. Of course, PS4 games often have certain graphical elements downgraded, but in reality - they work and look great, while the same games stutter on similarly specced PCs.
Not really. The 4xx series is a much newer architecture than the old M370x. You can't just directly compare it using GFLOPs like that.
I mean seriously, read what that person wrote: "much worse" performance on the 2016 compared to 2015 when their own (flawed) GFLOP comparison only shows a measly 32 GFLOP (3%!) difference between the 450 and 370X. They have an agenda, it's obvious from other posts on this forum.
How about we just wait until the reviews are out. It should be any day now.
It's wrong. I use gfxCardStatus to see which GPU is used on my 2013 MBP and the dGPU is used almost constantly for anything buy browsing, mail or Apple Music.
I seriously don't think this will be an issue at all.